Lead Data Engineer

Exciting opportunity for a Lead Data Engineer to work on a large ETRM Upgrade programme with a World Leading Energy Trading company.

Must have previous Trading or Energy experience and strong Azure/AWS/SAP.

c.£700 per day negotiable

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Principal Data Engineer is the one who conceptualizes and designs data foundations and end to end solutions including data platforms for the Business to maximize value from data. The role helps create a data-driven thinking within the organization, not just within IT teams, but also in the wider business stakeholder community. A Principal Data engineer is expected to be a subject matter expert, and an active thought partner in the organization's data strategy and the key driver to define the Vision and Data Strategy for robust and future ready IT solutions.

Key Characteristics:

- Hands-on technical delivery leader

- Visible community leader for data engineers

- Conducts quality, community & conference presentations/trainings

- Has vast array of technology skills with deep expertise in at least 2 core technologies (Azure, AWS, SAP)

- A skilled communicator capable of speaking to both technical developers and business managers.

- Able to drive change and improvement through a deep understanding of the inter-relationship between People, Process, Data and Technology

- Coordinate the change management process, incident management and problem management process.

- Drive implementation efficiency and effectiveness across the pilots and future projects to minimize cost, increase speed of implementation and maximize value delivery.

- Drives & contributes to community building initiatives like CoE, CoP.

Mandatory skills:

- AWS/Azure/SAP - Master

- ELT - Master

- Data Modeling - Master

- Data Integration & Ingestion - Master

- Data Manipulation and Processing - Skilled

- GITHUB, Action, Azure DevOps - Skilled

- Data factory, Databricks, SQL DB, Synapse, Stream Analytics, Glue, Airflow, Kinesis, Redshift, SonarQube, PyTest - Skilled

Optional skills:

- Experience in project management, running a scrum team.

- Experience working with BPC, Planning.

- Exposure to working with external technical ecosystem.

- Managing small teams.

- MKDocs documentation

Description: The Programme will transform processes, ways of working and data, as well as implementing Endur ETRM across Europe Gas Trading, Power and Global EPT.

The Programme is Business led, with a key focus on addressing process inefficiencies across the end-to-end deal lifecycle, and will provide the and businesses with a streamlined set of processes and a scalable platform to enable controlled growth over the next decade.

This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi-cultural environment. You also need to be a self-starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely. We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

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